Guidelines for disaster charity

cross-posted to my fan lj

I'm posting the link to this article from Aidwatch--please look at it before you donate. It makes a lot of really good general points and, in the case of donations for Pakistan, it supplies links to aid organizations that are in pakistan right now, outfits they say are going to be helpful there. We went through this with the Haitian earthquake, too, discovering we could do a lot more good with organizations that were already there or organizations that weren't getti...